Maybe it's just me, but I HATED that system. I thought the materia system was perfection.

The one thing everyone loved from FFVIII /s

I would love a mod for the original that draws 100 from the enemy, but then removes it as a drawable magic. That way there's some kind of a downside.

I think i only used draw in my first few playthroughs before learning how to refine magic from the obscene amount of cards and mug items i had just lying around.

Even beating first optional boss, the mechanical spider x-something at Dollet doesn't require draw at all. You can get everthing you need by playing cards with the students at the library, cafeteria and front gate.

It seems as if draw was meant as a last resort in case you didn't wanna play cards or were stuck out of magic to junction. I do think they should explain you will unlock ways to refine magic from GF abilities in the tutorial though.

Laguna kiros and Ward had so much more story to be given. Along with cid and edea.

I loved the integration of all of the mechanics, very much like all the threads in the story, hell I would still love to hear more about gf's and magic in that world, if anything I think they should make the junction system deeper, have equipment that is selectable and has different levels of attunability to each guardian force and type of magic.

Don't go the wrong way in remaking ffviii, make it even deeper!